It was flagged promptly and removed from view in a little while..
Although, I ll have to admit that this site holds up better than most similar places, and that is probably because it is not very well known...
But on the otherside, you can buy a high karma HN account on some sites, so everything is in place to poison this site as well. I think it's just a matter of getting upto some threshold of popularity..
So in HN, the readers will do the job of censoring info if they are very out of line with the mainstream narrative.
Look at this submission of mine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941820
It was flagged promptly and removed from view in a little while..
Although, I ll have to admit that this site holds up better than most similar places, and that is probably because it is not very well known...
But on the otherside, you can buy a high karma HN account on some sites, so everything is in place to poison this site as well. I think it's just a matter of getting upto some threshold of popularity..